you can't see my tongue be cause thes point is the back. now i don't want to mislead you into thinking that back vowels require the back to be high and front vowels require the front to be high in fact the very tip of my tongue is down when isay the front vowel sounds it's down and touching the back of my bottom front teeth but the whole tongue is still forward enough and still this past is high enough for you to see it think about it as i say these sounds i want you to think about the position the tongue needs to take again, it's forward the very tip is down and touching the back of my bottom front teeth